#fuckcolonisation — Public Fediverse posts
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"Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression."
— Tecumseh
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #NativeRights #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation
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This would never have happened if he wasn't a Black Muslim man.
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But no forensic evidence linked Williams to the murder weapon or crime scene, and as local prosecutors have renounced his conviction, the victim’s family and several trial jurors also said they opposed his execution.
“We must all question any system that would allow this to occur. The execution of an innocent person is the most extreme manifestation of Missouri’s obsession with ‘finality’ over truth, justice, and humanity, at any cost,” Tricia Rojo Bushnell, Williams’ attorney, said in a statement just before the execution. “Tonight, we all bear witness to Missouri’s grotesque exercise of state power. Let it not be in vain. This should never happen, and we must not let it continue.”
#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #missouri #USPol #USA #DeathPenalty #MarcellusWilliams #MarcellusKhaliifahWilliams
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/missouri-executes-marcellus-williams
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Kimberlé W Crenshaw for the Guardian:
American democracy is in peril. And racism will be the sledgehammer that destroys it
The ‘war against woke’ is not just a war against critical race theory and Black history. It is a war on our democracy
#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #US #USA #USPol #woke #wokeism #wokeness #CRT #CriticalRaceTheory #Criminology #CriminalJustice #Academia #KimberléCrenshaw #KimberléWCrenshaw
[Kimberlé W Crenshaw is the person who developed the theory of Intersectionality, after analysing the discrimination case 5 Black women brought against General Motors]